Church vows to confront racial strife in South Africa
A Johannesburg church urges unity amid apartheid tensions while Anglican delegates prepare for the Toronto Congress. The piece stresses that gospel reconciliation, not race, governs Christian truth and asks South Africa to broaden its view beyond segregation. It notes global church challenges and the hope that Toronto will deepen faith and outreach.
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Sauk Aftiwa
Prema
Walter
Ene
Christ
Anglican Congress
South Africa
United States
Canada
Britain
Africa
Pacific
India
Fiji
New York
Quebec
Toronto
Leather footwear keeps feet cool and comfy this summer
Doctors warn summer foot trouble rises from improper shoes. All leather styles promote air flow to dry feet, reduce chafing, and prevent blisters. Leather walking shoes, sandals, and dress pumps come in suede and waxed leathers with pastel colors and lighter, sturdier leather soles.
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Leather Industries
Terraced plant stand for indoors or outdoors
A terraced stand offers a shadow box plant holder to liven blank walls. Suitable for shade loving plants, it adapts to indoor or outdoor use and breaks the monotony of plain surfaces.
Jt Adds Value With Outdoor Brick Fireplace Pattern 243
Jt offers value to a home by building a substantial outdoor brick fireplace with workspace, cupboards, hooks, shelves, and adjustable grill slots. The pattern 243 includes illustrated directions and a serial list as part of the Home Improvement Packet io. 29 with three other patterns for $1.75 from Home Workshop Patterns, 4438 West Sth Ave, Vancouver.
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T P.pol
West Sth Ave
Vancouver
Benton High boys hike halves weight loss claim
A local restaurant offered a malt a day for a week to those who completed a 50 mile hike. Of the 7 students who started only 9 finished the full distance and none of the 14 girls completed.
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Benton, Hr
Rome Streets Paved by Ancient Road Building Tricks
Rome retains a street paving system based on granite or lava blocks set in sand and clay, a method from two millennia ago. Repairs involve prying up blocks, adding sand and clay, then reseating them, creating hazards for women in spike heels but offering durability and low upkeep.
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Rome
Canada to Maintain Lamb Price Support at 18.80 Cwt
Agriculture Minister Harry Hays announced continued deficiency payments to bolster Choice and Good lambs at 18.80 per hundredweight for 36 to 56 pound carcasses. The program, active since July 1 1962, uses payments when national prices fall below the set support level. No payments were made last year as average bids stayed above 18.80. Quality payments for Choice and Good lambs will continue.
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Harry Hays
Hays
Agricultural Stabilization Board
Canada
Three-Headed Tulip Grows in Walthamstow Garden
In Walthamstow England Mrs Minnie Doltis tends a rare three headed tulip flourishing in her garden for neighbors and visitors to admire. The unusual bloom has drawn curiosity from local residents and horticultural enthusiasts alike.
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Minnie Doltis
Walthamstow
England
Mother confronts love across generations in a meddling past
Madge Blake hurries to Carrie's college with a letter pleading for marriage as Carrie and Chuck Beverly press toward elopement. Madge weighs age, impulse, and family expectations, recalling her own stable marriage with Jim as she plans the next step for her daughter.
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Adge
Carrie
Madge Blake
Chuck
Madge
New York
Chuck Beverly
Jim
Washington
3Im
Cap
A Cafe Encounter with a Selfish Woman in Wartime
Madge notes a strikingly dressed woman who sits opposite during wartime dining. The other passenger radiates vanity and independence, prompting Madge to compare their lives with envy and suspicion while pondering the drone-like impression of such spouses and the lure of personal freedom.
Dreaming of Sharon Through Madge's Memory
A fragment from a drama of memory follows Madge as she recalls Sharon Robbin g in school days. The reflections mix childhood longing and a later life of love, with Sharon’s elopement plans, her mother’s disapproval, and a mysterious bill from a lawyer arriving with a letter to her.
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Sharon
Madge
Peter Something
Yale
Trousseau
Peter
Shiron
Carrie
Ron
Denly
Jetter
Sra
Sharon F
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Joost DE Blank
Capetown
Congress
Ips
Dornach
Tubingen
Germany
Women's Fire Brigade
Anne Homer Warner
Wand
Lakehaven
Smadge
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